Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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